Railway.



PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906. P. ENGLISH & A. G. QUIMBY.

I No. 810,479.

RAILWAY. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 24, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ENGLISH, OF NEW PHILADELPHIA, AND ALBERT G. QUIMBY, OF

UHRICHSVILLE, OHIO.

RAILWAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed October 24, 1905. Serial No. 284,234.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK ENGLISH, residing at New Philadelphia, and ALBERT G. QUIM Y,residing at Uhrichsville,in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railways, of which the following is a'specification.

Our invention pertains to railways, more particularly light railways, such as are employed in mines and it contemplates the provision of a railway embodying such aconstruction that the rails may be expeditiously and easily secured on the ties without resort to the use of spikes or the like, and this in such manner that there is no liability of the rails casually working loose and getting out of alinement.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of so much of a railway as is necessary to illustrate the preferred embodiment of our invention. 7 Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 3 comprises disconnected perspective views of the parts making up our improvements.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which A is a metallic tie having anchor-flanges a at its ends designed to be embedded in the road-bed with a view of holding the tie against casual movement. The said tie is provided at its upper side and adjacent to its ends with rail-braces B. These rail-braces B may be formed integral with or bolted or otherwise fixedly connected to the tie, and they have upwardly-directed inner portions 1), which are designed to rest against the outer sides of the rail-bases and webs after the manner best shown in Fig. 2 and are each provided with two (more or less) teats or projections c for a purpose presently set forth.

C C are rails which are preferably of the light type usually employed in mine-railways and other small or light railways. The said rails are provided in their webs with the usual transverse openings (1, and these latter are designed when the rails are positioned against the braces B to receive the beforementioned teats or projections c. In virtue of this provision it will be apparent that creeping or casual longitudinal movement of the rails will be precluded, and hence meeting rails will be prevented from pulling apart.

D D are locking-arms disposed on the tie A and between the rails C, and E E are rings through the medium of which the said arms are secured in their working position. The arms D are pivoted at e to the tie, so as to swing in a horizontal plane thereon, and their free portions are bent slightly upward, so as to rest over the inner portions of the rail bases, and are preferably provided with bev' eled endsf, this latter in order to enable thesaid arms to more positively engage the inner sides of the webs of the rails. The rings E are slidable on and off the arms D, and their function is to hold the arms against casual movement from the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and thus assure the rails C being held tight against the outer braces B.

In assembling the parts of our improvements it is simply necessary to position the tie A on the road-bed and arrange the rails C on the tie and against the braces B and so that the apertures d of the rails receive the teats or projections c of the braces and then swing the arms D into engagement with the rails and move the rings E up on the said arms. With this done it will be apparent that the rails C will be securely fastened on the tie in such manner that there is no liability of the rails moving casually endwise or laterally, and yet when it is desired for any reason to remove one of the rails the same may be accomplished by simply adjusting the ring E and the locking-arm D complementary to said rail and then withdrawing the rail from its outside brace B.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that our improved railway is simple and inexpensive in construction and adapted to be expeditiously constructed without the employment of skilled labor, and yet said railway is well adapted to withstand the rough usage to which such structures are ordinarily subjected.

We claim 1. In a railway,'the combination of a tie, rail-braces fixed with respect to the tie, rails arranged on the tie and against said braces,

looking-arms pivoted to the tie at the opposite sides of the rails, with reference to the braces, and arranged to engage the rails, and rings surrounding the tie and the locking arms and slidable on and off the latter.

2. In a railway, the combination of a tie, rail-braces fixed with respect to the tie and provided with teats or projections, rails arranged on the tie and against the braces and having transverse openings receiving the teats or projections of the latter, locking-arms pivoted to the tie at the opposite sides of the rails, with reference to the braces, and having beveled ends arranged to engage the rails, and rings surrounding the tie and the lockingarms and slidable on and off the latter.

3. In a railway, the combination of a tie, a rail-brace carried by and fixed with respect to the tie, a rail arranged against the said 20 brace, a locking-arm pivoted to the tie at the opposite side of the rail, with reference to the brace, and arranged to be swung into and out of engagement with the rail, and slidable means carried by the rail and engaging the arm for securing the latter in its working position.

4. A railway-tie having a rail-brace fixed with respect thereto and also having a raillocking arm pivoted thereon, and a slidable ring surrounding the said arm and movable in the direction of the length thereof.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK ENGLISH. ALBERT G. QUIMBY.

Witnesses:

B. O. I-IENDERsHo'r, J. F. STEPHENSON. 

